WarHammer 40.000: Assembling an Ork Trukk
I've just finished assembling my first (of the two I have) ork trukk. Being the first "new generation" vehicle I've assembled since late 90s, It's been a small challenge having optional parts, multiple positioning of others and optionally non-gluing some of them.
I plan to make minor changes to each trukk, so this one for example has no frontal armour panels (thus, exposing the truk engine), but I've kept the ram because orks are brute and will love ramming space marines at full speed.
I haven't glued yet both the driver and the gunner orks to properly paint them.
But the idea is to end gluing them to avoid pieces falling on a play session.
The side ramps arent glued either (only the side gears that hold them to the trukk).
So in will be clear when the trukk is deploying the carried troops.
In general, assembly of the trukk requires you to be patient and look carefully at the instructions (sometimes they indicate a lot of pieces and you need a second look to see exactly where they go), and you should fully assemble a "component" (for example, the gunner's cabinet, or the engine) before putting it on the trukk.
Now building the second one will be much easier.
Offtopic note: From now on, I will upload bigger images, 640x480 was a bit too small.
Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000
Increasing the Ork ranks
One of my christmas gifts was part of the new shipment of Ork units. I've got it since some weeks and I've finally started assembling the miniatures.
When everything is ready, the ork army will contain:
- 1 x Ork warboss
- 1 x Ork weirdboy
- 1 x Ork mad dok
- 1 x Ork mek
- 1 x Squad of 6 ork nobz
- 1 x Squad of 17 ork boyz
- 3 x Squad of 20 ork boyz
- 1 x Squad of 19 gretchin + 1 ork runtherd
- 1 x Squad of 19 gretchin + 1 ork runtherd
- 1 x Squad of 2 ork lootas + 2 ork burnas
- 1 x Squad of 9 ork tankbustas
- 6 x Bomb squigs
- 2 x Ork trukks
- 3 x Ork Deffkoptas
- 6 x ork warbikes (1 of them is a nobz)
- 1 x ork deff dread (dreadnought)
I haven't calculated the total points of the army, but having 120+ units starts to look like a good "green force" to be feared :)
I have plans of further increasing the army, but I hope not in the near future (I have dozens of miniatures to assembly yet...)... but depends on when the Stompa arrives }:)
Update: I should not go to GW stores... I bought additional forces and pre-ordered the mighty Stompa!
Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000
Warhammer 40.000: Ork Stompa video
A video featuring two painted ork stompas, with close-ups and 360ยบ rotation camera:
They are scheduled to be released on march!
Epic 40.000 (Now Epic Armageddon)
Another Games Workshop army that I have since I was a child is an Eldar army for the game Epic (now renamed to Epic: Armageddon).
I was curious today and searched for prices at GW store, just to find that they are way overpriced...
Almost the same miniatures I have, but ad a price that I don't know what they have to be so expensive (come on, 12 pounds for 24 Wraithlords miniatures that size between 6 and 15 milimeters! all the plastic of them is surely less than a single Warhammer 40k miniature!).
It is a pity, because I have another two armies almost unpainted (orcs and space marines, contained in the game box), and it seems they will stay that size, but compared with the Eldar army they are very few in numbers and firepower...
A pity that simply not being a mainstream game they charge you extra for them :(
Warhammer 40.000: Last buildings done!
Finally, I've ended assembling all my warhammer 40k buildings!
With the remaining pieces I've managed to create another small Sanctus Imperialis ruins:
And a small Basilica Administratum:
As you can se, I've tried to add as much details and mini-moddings as possible, like broken columns and walls, a bigger ladder or a fallen angel statue.
Now it's time to start painting, all will look better and I won't buy any more miniatures or props until a good amount of painting is finished.
I've got work for months!
Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000
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